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Uncle Tom Cabin The Slave Trade
1,506 wordsFew books can truly be said to have altered the course of history, and even fewer can be said to have started an entire war. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one novel to do both. Abraham Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her, "So this is the little lady who made this big war... Uncle Toms Cabin had a tremendous effect on early 19 th century thoughts of slavery; stirring abolitionist support in the north. The novel is a realistic, although fictional view ...
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20 Th Century Billions Of Dollars
1,483 wordster> The United States is justified in spending billions of dollars on NASA space missions to Mars. Throughout the course of history, man has dreamed of stepping foot on another planet. The advances in technology in the 20 th century have allowed man to do what at one time was considered unthinkable for millenniums before. With the advent of the modern space program in the early 1950 s, NASA has performed many inconceivable feats. They have sent and returned men to space. Theyve set up...
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Sense Of Justice Wrong To Kill
1,493 wordsHumans live in the midst of an ecological community. Although living in cities has caused many of us loose touch with the land and the other species that inhabit it, our actions still effect the environment, thus we should still consider ourselves a part of this community. Just as humans have a set of rules of how to act within their own human community and social sphere so should they have a set of rules on how to behave within the larger ecological community. Rules for our own society are base...
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European Power And The Seven Weeks War
850 wordsThe Seven Weeks War, also known as the Austro-Prussian war, was a brief struggle between two rising European powers. On June 14, 1866 Austria and Prussia engaged each other in battle. Prussia received support from only a few small north German states in the country of Italy. Austria's allies Saxony, Hanover, the Hesse's, Bavaria, Baden, and Wurttenberg. This war was deliberately provoked by Otto von Bismark who was the prime minister of Prussia under King William I. King William ordered Bismark ...
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Green Revolution Chemical Fertilizers
1,179 wordsWith the rapid growth of our global population pouring into the next millennium, we will witness an ever-growing hunger rate around the world. The Green Revolution which already sprouted in the early part of the century, only needs to add a bit more momentum and we will see a bright future for the human race, a future without hunger and starvation- hopefully. Citizens believe that the miracle seeds of the Green Revolution will enhance grain yields and therefore are a key to ending world hunger. ...
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Harpers Ferry General Lee
1,208 wordsThe Civil War, the battle of Antietam; what comes to mind when it is mentioned? To me the first thing that comes to mind is a bloody battle in our nations history. But what were the Leaders like? What did they think? How did they win and loose their battles? Having visited the battlefields and living in the area for 6 months, I've come to learn more about it and realize its purpose. General "Stonewall" Jackson is one pertinent general that comes to my mind. Another would be General Robert E. Lee...
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Acid Rain Forest Fires
505 wordshappens because the roots emit pigments of red color into the soil which then runs into the water. Even though the amount of red pigment released is very little, due to the large amount of cedar trees in the Pine forests, the water is affected. The main crops of the Pine Barrens include blueberries and cranberries. There are also many rare plants that can be found in the Pinelands. One of these is the pitcher plant which is related to the Venus Fly Trap. Plants such as these have an influence on...
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Cannabis Plant Mind Altering
1,170 wordsFor Legalization The cannabis plant has been the topic of much debate throughout the history of this country. Many people don't know that it was not the effect of cannabis that originally spurred its banning. It was actually originally the work of the cotton industry who put big money behind il legalization for the plant's mind altering effects. The cotton industry was afraid that hemp, a product of the cannabis plant, would soon overpower the strong hold of cotton since it was a more durable te...
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Fire Department Water Supply
1,308 words... ions that took place throughout the fire ravaged area. Along the eastern ridge of the fire, many high voltage power lines were burnt which eliminated power to homes in the surrounding communities and also presented complications with the fire department's electrically run hydrant system pumps. The fire companies resorted to using water from local swimming pools to put out some of the encroaching flames instead of using the pumped water from the hydrants. Fatigue, injury, and a feeling of vul...
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Time Life Books Transcontinental Railroad
1,244 words... e the charge ignited. In order to speed up the process of blasting through the mountains, a new type of explosive was adopted. It was called nitro-glycerin; this compound was extremely explosive and unstable to transport. A Scottish chemist was hired to mix the formula near the workers. Although this would speed up the construction, it came at a heavy price. Workers were often killed by debris that would fly into the air when the explosives went off. The debris included trees, rocks, and dir...
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Effects Of Global Warming
1,052 words... weather is hot and more humid than usual. Hotter temperatures and more rain in different areas will cause more heat and humid weather. This will allow mosquitoes to find new places to love and spread the diseases. "Mosquito-borne diseases are being reported for the first time at high elevations in Asia, Central Africa, and Latin America. An increase in winter temperatures, which tend to limit the distribution of insect populations, may be increasing mosquito survival rates and contributing t...
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God Or Goddess Gods And Goddesses
1,038 wordsThe Mesopotamian's viewed their city-states as earthly copies of a divine model and order. Each city-state was sacred since it was linked to a god or goddess. Hence, Nippur, the earliest center of Sumerian religion, was dedicated to Enlil, god of wind, and Babylon to Marduk, who supplanted Enlil in Babylonian myth. Nannar, a moon god, was the owner of Ur. Moreover, located at the heart of each major city-state was a temple complex. Occupying several acres, this sacred area consisted of a ziggura...
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Transcontinental Railroad Native Americans
1,206 wordsDouble Edge Sword After the civil war, we had thousands upon thousands of people looking for the American Dream, and Horace Greeley, who stated the famous words Go west young man, helped to start the great migration westward. There was plenty of cheap land west of the Mississippi, and gold was for in the West, just waiting for those who could get there. The migration ultimately interfered with the Native Americans, which changed their way of life forever. Many poor souls tried to make it in the ...
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Reproductive Organs Circulatory System
425 wordsEarth Worm Direction Parts Function Digestive System Prostomium a small fleshy lobe that extends over the mouth, used to help dig through the soil Mouth the entrance for food into the digestive system, located under the prostomium Pharynx A tube at the beginning of the digestive tract that creates a sucking action to remove food particles from the soil, located just behind the mouth Esophagus a narrow passage in the digestive track that connects the pharynx to the crop Crop a temporary storage a...
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Russian Revolution Alexander Ii
570 wordsIn 1812 Czar Alexander the First had sworn an oath that Russia would never make peace as long as an enemy stood on Russian soil. Little did he know that not much more than a century later the enemy was those who were native to the Russian soil-the people. The Russian Revolution was an event that shaped the rest of the 20 th century worldwide. The causes of the revolution go back many years before the actual revolution had even showed signs of breaking out. The causes included a weak government, ...
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Shrubs And Bushes Mediterranean Vegetation Low
587 wordsMediterranean Vegetation Mediterranean vegetation This is an essay about vegetation typical of a Mediterranean climate. In this essay you will find out about how plants survive and multiply in a dry heat and the different types that exist. I will also compare Mediterranean vegetation with that of a colder climate. The regions that we will be looking at are those that border the Mediterranean sea. These are, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Albania,...
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Gold Rush 6 M
805 wordsMining Techniques The way to discover large amounts of gold, was to have the perfect mining technique. One of the earliest techniques was panning and cradling. This method consisted of a pick, a shovel and a washing dish and people either worked by themselves, or in a small group. First of all, panning was a simple method but required a lot of skill. It worked by loading sediment onto the washing device which had a sieve (strain), and moving the pan to and fro until the heavier gold was separate...
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Middle East Physical Geography
1,130 wordsThe Monkeys Smell Good The Middle East is a region in Southwest Asia that includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, U. A. E. , Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. The aspects that make up all that is geography in the Middle East include physical geography, economic geography, religion, and human history. The Middle East is known for its physical geography, being the largest area of dry climate in the world. Southwest Asia is mostly dese...
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Hester Prynne Reverend Dimmesdale
636 wordsThe Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a two hundred and fifty-four page novel about Hester Prynne, Pearl, Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, and their conflicts. The book opens with a discussion about the prison door and a lonely rosebush whose significance will be mentioned later. It goes on to tell of Hester? s punishment for her sin; she must forever wear the letter? A? on her breast. She must be marked as an adulteress for she and the Reverend had an affair. Hester was found ...
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Men And Women Values And Beliefs
1,675 wordsFrederick Jackson Turners text The Significance of the Frontier in American History, was and still is an important American document. In this article Turner discusses all aspects of the frontier, and what it means to many different types of people. He explains American development as the movement westward, and how we used, and what we did with the free land that was available beyond the frontier line. One of the main points that I extracted from this article is the fact that a distinguishing fea...
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